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IP concerns hamper China R&D
Survey shows most foreign firms assign a secondary role to their Chinese R&D operations
Turmoil in generics brings opportunity for fine chemicals firms
Change in the finished-dose generic drug business is creating openings, albeit modest ones, for pharmaceutical ingredient makers
Guiding chiral nanoparticle growth
Sulfur-containing amino acids and peptides prompt gold to take on a twisted structure
Watching emulsions freeze
Surfactants affect the microstructure at the interface between solid and liquid during freezing
Measuring protein collision cross sections without ion mobility
Collision cross section can be calculated from Orbitrap data
Mutated enzyme breaks down plastic more efficiently
Further engineering of PET-degrading enzyme could lead to commercial bioremediation process
Aldehydes lure mosquitoes
Malaria-infected people give off certain attractant chemicals in greater amounts
Science in Macau wins big with indirect funding from casinos
Gambling hub supports basic research to improve its universities’ rankings and attract companies
Slippery microgrooves help harvest fog
Tuning surface shape and chemistry lets hydrophilic materials shed clingy water droplets
Ancient reaction inspires method for making porous catalysts
A nontoxic variation on the ‘pharaoh’s snakes’ reaction yields high-surface-area catalysts for fuel cells
Microbes help release CO<sub>2</sub> from eroding rocks
Carbon oxidation happens at a faster rate than scientists expected
March for Science pushes onward
Fewer, smaller events in 2018 than in 2017
Semiconductor silver sulfide stretches like metal
As the first known room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor, the material could boost flexible electronics applications
Sponsored Content: Antonis Papadourakis is guiding Lanxess’s transformation
The CEO has embraced a renewed emphasis on innovation since joining Lanxess Corp. in 2015.
